Actually it is the 'skunk works' guys of Airbus justufying their salaries. If you finish to read the article and read what Charlie Champion said, you'd probably understand this.
But since the correspondent smoly puts it as 'Airbus' it looks like the company strategy.
All aircraft manufacturers assume that the airlines will put competent pilots who know howmto fly into the cockpit.mthe only thing they really say is that you can learn how to use this or that particular aircraft much faster than before. A, B, B or E, all the same...